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RFCTIIEF! !
Forty Years A Suffer From Catarrh'
WONDERFUL TO RELATE!

ssNOR FORTY YEARS have been victim
to oCATARRH-three-four OF the time
a sufferer from eXcruciating pains across my
forehead and nostrils. The discharges were so
offensive that hesitate to mention 1t, except LOT
the good that it may do some other sufferer. L
have spent a young fortune from my earnings
during nv forty years of suffering to obtain re-
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corners of the earth. with no relief And at last
(57 years of age) have met with remedy that
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weighed 12S pounds and now weigh l46. USED
thirteen bottles Of the medicine, and the only re-
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life NAV not haye influence to prevail on al! ca
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If not in your market it will be forwarded on re-
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Sl.75. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY,
Macon, Georgia.
For sale by LOWRY & STARR, Yorkville.
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Jhe &hpmer's s Guruer.
DER OAK UND DER VINE.

DEN OtAh UNI DCIS SASEI.
BY CHARLES F. ADAMS.
don.d vas preaching yomans righdts,
Or anyding like dot,
Und I likes to see al peoples
Shust gondented nit dheir lots;
Budt wants to gondradict dot shap
Dot made dis leedle shoke;
ga woman vas der glinging vine,
And man, der shturdy oak
Perhaps, sometimes, dot may pc drue;
Budt, den dimes oudt Oft nine.
I find me oudt dot man himself
Vas peen der glinging vine;, ....
Und ven hees friendts dhey all vas gone,
Und he vas shust "tead proke,"
Dot'svhen der woman shteps righdt in,
Und peen der shturdy oak.
Shust 20 oup to der pase-ball grounds
Und see dhose ''shturdy oaks"
All planted roundt ubon der seats
Shust hear dheir laughs and shokes!
Dhen see dhose vomens at der tubs,
Mitglothes oudt on der lines;
Which vas der shturdy oaks, mine friendts,
Und which der glinging vines? :?
When Sickness in der household comes,
Und weeks und weeks he shtays,
Who vas it fighdts him midout resdt,
Dhose weary nighdts und days
Who beace and comfort always prings,
Und cools dot fefered prov?
Q More like i'd vas der tender vine
Dotoak he glings to, now.
"Man wants budt leedle here pelow,''
Der boet Won time said;
Dhere's leedle dot man he don'd want,
dink it means, inshted;
Und when der years keep rolling on,
Dheir cares md droubles bringing,
Hevants to pc der shturdy oak,
Und, also, do der glinging. 81
Maybe, when oaks dhey Cling some more,
Und don'd so shturdy peen,
Der glinging vines dhey hat some shance
To helb run Life's masheen.
In helt and sickness, shoy and pain,
In calm or shtormy veddher,
Twas beddher dot dhose oaks und vines
Should always Cling togeddher.
" HaTpe7'S Magazine.
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nN the lst of January, 1887, the YORKVILLE
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INTER-STATES LIFE ASSOCIATION,
STANTON, VA.
I. ERSKINE MILLER, Presiden

G.. l.. COOKE, Secretary.
GEORGE c. JORDAN, General Agent
vUyHE immense amount of Life Insurance car
! red in this country makes it Of National
importance that heads of families should be able
to securet as cheaply as possible consistent with
safety. Especially is this necessary for the mil
lions of men in moderate circumstances, who
must earn their living by hard knocks and in
the face of competition that is becoming Keen
er and sharper every day.
If life insurance is not safe it is not worth car
rying and if it is too cOstiy, the men who most
need it cannot carry it all. How to make it both
safe and cheap is the problem Of the day, and he
who solves it will have done a great and patriot
ic service for his fellow men. The Old Line
Companies are certainly safe when honestly
managed, but their rates are so high, that only
| the rich can afford to carry such an amount as
would provide for family, while the great mass
of men, and those, too, whose families most need
| protection, are compelled to go without insur-
ance or seek it in the assessment companies
| secret orders. The fact that these cheaper insti
| tutions to-day furnishing more insurance
than all the Old Line companies combined, shows
| how eager are the mass Of citizens for insurance
1 that is within reach of their means While these
orders and corporations are furnishing insurance
cheap enough, yet, at best they can only be
looked upon as temporary expedients and not al
together satisfactory. BUTT is plain, that some
where between the old line and assessment plans
there must be middle ground, which is not
only safe. but just and tar to nil parties.
The Liz T. ASSOClA1lON
Of Staunton, Va, has sought earnestly and hon.
estly to find this middle ground. In this search
they have, at large expense, consulted and en-
ployed the foremost actuaries and insurance eX-
ports in this country, and upon their recommen-
dation have adopted line of rates which is en-
tirey safe. and yet, is in the reach of every
thrifty and Industrious man who desires to pro-
tect his family against his death.
TO ascertain this safe rate, they added to the
actual death cost experienced by the old line com
panies ample reserve. and then reasonable
amount for expenses and profits but so limited
as to compel economical management. So plain
and fair and popular are its methods that over
three millions Of business was done in the first
eight months work. Its rates are fixed, and
must be paid, deaths or no deaths, but divided
into two, four, or six payments year, as may
best suit the convenience Of the applicant.
Active Agents wanted in South Carolina
For further particulars, call or send address to
JAS. d. PICKARD. Manager,
Columbia, s. c.
January II If
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ELASTIC GUN WADDING.

vIvHE undersigned begs leave to call attenioH
to the MERINO ELASTIC FELT GUN
WADDING, the only perfectly safe waddlng for
choke-bore breeclI- loading shot guns. by the
use of this wad the recoi ola gun is lessened the
distribution of the shot is more regular, and the
range and penetration are greater. Another ad-
vantage is that the gun is kept cleaner than
when any other wad is used. Try them. They
are put up in boxes holding 256 wads and are
made in two grades. The price for the first grade
is forty cents per box the second grade twenty
five cents The first grade should be used over
the powder-the second grade over the shot.
The first grade wads are from one.half to three
eights of an inch in thickness, which makes them
cheaper than any other wad in the market, as
Cnly one of the first grade wads is necessary on
the powder, and one of the second grade over
the shot to give the best results II you use a
12 gauge gun with brass shells, buy No. wads
For paper shells use No. II wads. For guns OF
different gauge, for brass shells, use wad three
sizes larger than the bore; for paper shells, one
size larger. BY this means the gases from the
powder will be perfectly confined and the very
best results obtained.
Sample boxes will be sent by mail on receipt
of forty cents for the first grade, and twenty
cents for the second grade. Address,
T.. A. SHARRETTS, Secretary,
P.O. Box 3O7, Baltimore, Md.
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The ;far:a aud ;fireside,
AGRICULTURAL VALUE OF PEAS.

The pea regard as an essential crop tor
all farmers to cultivate. The pea is the clo-
yer of the South in increasing the fertility
Of the soil, besides furnishing food for man
and beast.
The continued overflow of my bottom
lands, from the 18th of May until too late
to rely upon them for crop of corn, made
it necessary to provide the means for my
stock, and to do this commenced to plant
peas as soon as the wheat and oats were har-
vested. On the first plat of l3 acres-Wheat
red or stock, and the balance in cow or clay
peas.
From the one bushel black, say four acres,
I picked 1916 pounds, in the hull OF the
red or stock. half bushel, 536 pounds; seven
acres clay, 3,O9S pounds, or 5,45O pounds
from 13 acres, with, perhaps so pounds to
the acre in the field, too green at the pick
ing.
1t will thus be seen that the black yielded
44 pounds, the red 2GS pounds, and the clay
442 pounds to the acre. The prospect the
last of August promised much greater
yield, but the hot dry weather through
out September lessened the yield at least
one-half.
The black and clay varieties ripened rap
idly under the hot sun, losing all the leaves,
while the red held their leaves, and are still
holding the leaves. My experience is, the
red pea is preferable when the vine is the
object desired but the speckled or whip
poorwill is preferable in this, that while
they do not vine, yet, in cutting the vines,
when the peas have matured, lose less in
handling. -...
The clay pea, planted two weeks or more
later than those mentioned, ripened nearly
as early, and held their leaves better.
My observation as we'll as experience has
proven that the vining varieties should not
be planted earlier than the last week in
June. The speckled or whippoorWill may
be planted at any season after the first OF
May, with good results.
When peas are planted for the benefit pf
the soil, as we'll as for forage, the vining va
reties are preferable.
If our farmers were to plant more peas,
and follow with cotton, the yield will be
greatly increased from the vegetable matter
of the decaying vines, besides securing nj
trogen in the soil, taken up from the atmos-
phere during the growth of the plants.
The question of cnring and saving pea
vines is an important one, and, if not prop.
erly done, the leaves are lost in handling
and much of the virtues lost.
I hauled mine; half-cured, and put on
poles in the barn so as to get a free circula-
tion of air, and they are thus cured. Or,
better still, haul in the vines and store away
by putting layer of vines and layer OF
wheat or oat straw alternately. The vines
will cure beautifully in this way, and thus
improve the straw as forage, and certainly
securing the leaves.
The pea vines should not be cut until they
are matured, and at least one-half Of the
peas are ripe.-T. ". Holloway in s. G..
AQ7'ic,ilt,wdL Baslletin.
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NOTICE..
To All Whom 1t MAY Concern :
TAX RETURNS FOR Iss6-s7.
AUDITORS OFFICE, YORK COUNT,

AUDITORS OFFICE, YORK COUNTY,
YoRKvILLE, s. c., December l, 1886.
4 CCORDING to law. the TAX BOOKS OF
N YORK COUNTY, for the fiscal year COM
mencing November 1st, 1886. will be open from
JANUARY 1ST, 1887, UNTIL FEBRUARY
10TH, 1887, inclusive. The Auditor will attend
at the following places and times to take the tax
returns Of the several taxpayers of York coun-
ty for the fiscal year 1886.
At Yorkville, from January 81, to February
20, 1887, inclusive.
At which time the Books will close and penal
ty attach to all delinquents.
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ages of 81 and go. are liable to poll tax.
w. B. WILLIAMS, Auditor
December AZ IF
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APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned
~ Administrators of the estate OF JOHN DU-
LIN. deceased has made a final settlement with
the Judge of Probate for York county, and on
the 18th day of February, 1887, at y o'clock. NJ,
will max eapplication for a final discharge from
liability as Administrative of the said estate.
MARY J. DULIN,
Administrators, with Will annexed.
Janlary ~ Ut
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A NOTE OF WARNING.-The veriest
drunkard on earth, in his lucid moments,
will freely confess that drunkenness is bru-
talizing, debasing and ruinous to both body
and mind. All sots commenced as moder-
ate and occasional drinkers, and hooted at
the forebodings of their friends that they
would wind up as drunkards. They would
meet the warnings of sincere friends with
the remark that they had resolution suffi-
cient to control themselves and that they
degree of confidence in the strength of their
own resolutions at the outset. The occa-
sionai drnker may gradually become the
regular drinker, the moderate may insensl-
bly, drift into the immoderate drlnker.
"The appetite" as Shakespeare says, ..'groWs
by what it feeds upon" the craving Tor
stimulants increases habit ripens into sec
ond nature, it takes an increased quantity
to keep off depression, and the end of it is
that the moderate drinker often becomes the
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As the Year 1886 Has Closed,
January .
THE HOWE MACHINE 0MPAkY'S
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Prices within the reach Of all. Call and get a
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!SOLUBLE" PLANT FOOD.

A postal card inquirer wants toknoW why
we prefer insoluble fertilizers to soluble
ones. We don't. We want our plant food
to be all available, and to thatend we do not
want it too soluble. Ifit is too soluble (ike
nitrate of soda, for instance0 it will leach
out of the reach of the roots of young plants
before they can get it. Such very soluble
fertilizers are only suited to perennial crops
like grass, or at least to biennials, like win
ter grain; and upon the latter they should
not be sown until spring. But this inquirer
doubtless referred to the so-called ''soluble"
or acid phosphate. This is soluble when
applied, but in twenty-four hours it reverts
to that less soluble form which it is the fash
ion to call insoluble for the purpose Of mis-
leading the people. Phosphate of lime made
soluble by sulphuric acid is corrosive, and
not only cannot be taken up by the feeding
roots of plants, but will destroy such as come
in contact with it. If it did not revert it
would poison the land until washed out by
rains. The solitary advantage claimed for
this acid phosphate is that for the few hours
it remains soluble it distributes itself better
through the soil. When it has reverted, it
is in the same condition as the phosphate in
dung, guano, ground bone and South Caro-
lima phosphate. In these forms phosphoric
acid costs from two to five cents pound.
In the,"soluble" form it costs from ten to
fifteen cents pound. Can any farmer af-
ford to pay from eight to ten cents pound
to have his phosphoric acid 'soluble" for
only twenty-four hours? Had he not bet
ter buy, as he can, three or four times as
much of the less soluble with the same mon
ey? This question is the whole question.
Think of it we'll. Vermont Waterman.
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BRADFIELD'S
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/ HAD BEEN THERE.-"Bub, what's the
day of the month ?' he querried as he
!. stopped short at the corner of Griswold and
Larned streets.
The lad crossed the street without re-
plying and stood on the curb and looked
back.
+ "What's the matter 2"
81 know your racket. Soon as tell you
you'll say you've got note due to-day,
and want to borrow S37 to help you out.
Give got through being financially ruined !:
knnse neWslV over there"